How to Rebuild Strength and Energy After a Panchakarma Cleanse

The releasing of emotions may happen weeks or even several months after you finish your home panchakarma. To make your rejuvenation more effective, after completing your panchakarma purification program, set some time aside to build up your strength. Whether you take a weekend, a week, a month, or even more, use the time as a purposeful period of rest, relaxation, and rebuilding of body, mind, and spirit. Here are a few suggestions: Get plenty of rest.

Observe celibacy so that you don’t waste your vital energy. Eat carefully, according to the guidelines for your constitution. Meditate and do yoga postures regularly. Quite a few more suggestions for rejuvenative herbs, foods, and tonics for all constitutional types are offered in Part III.

See, for example, the recommendations under “Low Libido” and “Fatigue.” Self-Esteem Self-esteem is at the core of healing. Because of the connectedness of mind and body, our sense of self-esteem is our cells’ sense of self-esteem. This is because, according to Ayurveda, every cell is a center of intelligence and awareness. Every cell carries the sense of self for its own survival.

It is the sense of self in the cell that maintains the size and shape of the cell. Self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-respect promote cellular intelligence, which is necessary for proper cell function and immunity. Modern science is just now acknowledging the importance of the mind-body connection, but knowledge of it has been part of Ayurveda for five thousand years. Our sense of self, our attitudes and understandings, our feelings, are all psychobiological events.

Self-esteem is one such event, one that is strengthening to our cells and to all aspects of our bodies. A lack of self-confidence and self-love is detrimental. Cancer is an example of this lack. Cancer cells have lost their intelligence and grow separate from the body.